One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments /

One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments / / ed. by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Jordan Luber.

Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Peters...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Aligica, Paul Dragos,
Aron, Leon,
Bernstam, Michael S.,
Bozóki, András,
Braguinsky, Serguey,
Ganev, Venelin I.,
Herf, Jeffrey,
Kosicki, Piotr H.,
Kramer, Mark,
Luber, Jordan,
Marin, Noemi,
Mihăieș, Mircea,
Pearson, Margaret M.,
Riabchuk, Mykola,
Rosefielde, Steven,
Rutland, Peter,
Shore, Marci,
Stan, Marius,
Tarko, Vlad,
Tismaneanu, Vladimir,
HerausgeberIn:
Luber, Jordan,
Tismaneanu, Vladimir,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Why a 20th Century Exercise in the 21st Century
  • PART ONE: FANTASIES OF SALVATION
  • German Communism, the Jews, and Israel
  • Euphoria to Decay
  • Getting off the Red Tram of Socialism
  • The Rise, Demise, and Pernicious Long-Term Impact of Soviet Communist Ideology in Russia
  • PART TWO: ECONOMICS
  • The Comparative Assessment of Communist and Post-Communist System Performance and Human Wellbeing
  • Communist Economy
  • Looking Back at the Soviet Economic Experience
  • Incentives, Coercion, and Redistribution
  • The Rise and Fall of the Planned Economy and Its Long-Lasting Effects on Transition
  • PART THREE: POLITICS
  • Romancing a Millenarian State
  • Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the Dialectical Quarrels of Post-war Europe
  • China’s Enduring Leninist Toolkit
  • Reductio ad Reaganum
  • Ideology and Violence in Communist Venezuela
  • PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  • Communist Rhetoric as Official Practices of Discourse
  • Selective Repression and Democratic Opposition in Post-Totalitarian Hungary
  • Lost in Protochronia: Ideological Dada in Ceaușescu’s Romania
  • The Road to Liberation Theology
  • Philosophical Lessons from the Bolshevik Experiment
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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